Video Doesn't Work in IE

[lkent]

I am trying to embedded this video player on my site. It works beautifully in Firefox but I get an error message IE cannot open the site and the page doesn't come up in IE.

Script

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.schooltubemvp.com/embed.it?id=152&wid=240&hei=480"></script>

[Eye for Video]

That's a tiny scrap of code to try decypher the problem with. A link to the entire page would give more hints as to what might be wrong.
However, when I load the src directly:
http://www.schooltubemvp.com/embed.it?id=152&wid=240&hei=480
In IE a long list of info comes up describing a .swf player being placed on the page via swfobject.js. Doesn't solve anything, just gives me an idea of what type of player and how it's being placed on the page. Also gives path to the xml file, which is downloadable and from there a person can view and directly download the video files on the playlist.
In FF along with some of this info is the error message,
"Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page"
Now normally my FF plays Flash just fine...ssssoooo.
Perhaps this is some special player that requires more plugins than you have installed on your IE. Works on FF because you have the required plugins.
Looks like this is for a school and there are more than a dozen videos listed so perhaps it's a special parameter that needs to be set, or plugin installed. I would think that there must be other Websites accessing those videos or players installed on other pages. So if you can, try to view those videos from another site and review the code from there.
Best wishes,
Eye for Video
www.cidigitalmedia.com

[lkent]

Windows error message appears

IE cannot open (page url) Action Aborted

I will load it up on the website to show you what it does in IE.

http://www.mrkent.net/index.php?opti...=98&Itemid=102

Yes it is a video player from school tube that plays mutiple videos

[lkent]

I am using Joomla and inserted the script from http://mvp.schooltube.com/ here is the code for the page...ignore all the videos as I have just added those because this player script doesn't work in IE.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.schooltubemvp.com/embed.it?id=152&wid=240&hei=480"></script>
<div style="text-align: left">Here are some great videos about integrating technology in teaching. Click on the video to visit <a href="http://www.schooltube.com">www.schooltube.com</a>&nbsp;for more great videos and to view full&nbsp;size version.<br />
<br />
&nbsp;</div>
<table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" width="200" border="1">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;<object width="250" height="225">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.schooltube.com/v/b5b32a12db924f6b837e" />
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed width="250" height="225" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.schooltube.com/v/b5b32a12db924f6b837e" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></td>
<td><object width="250" height="225">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.schooltube.com/v/774831c7be43444197a7" />
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed width="250" height="225" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.schooltube.com/v/774831c7be43444197a7" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></td>
<td>&nbsp;<object width="250" height="225">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.schooltube.com/v/4a908ab52ed045e7bb4d" />
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed width="250" height="225" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.schooltube.com/v/4a908ab52ed045e7bb4d" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;<object width="250" height="225">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.schooltube.com/v/12ca608d29c4475a93e3" />
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed width="250" height="225" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.schooltube.com/v/12ca608d29c4475a93e3" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></td>
<td>&nbsp;<object width="250" height="225">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.schooltube.com/v/5019c5461b5c4c5592a3" />
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed width="250" height="225" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.schooltube.com/v/5019c5461b5c4c5592a3" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></td>
<td>&nbsp;<object width="250" height="225">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.schooltube.com/v/7fa6fde4e5d2404ea3e7" />
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed width="250" height="225" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.schooltube.com/v/7fa6fde4e5d2404ea3e7" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;<object width="250" height="225">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.schooltube.com/v/a0e4579df4e34ab6bff6" />
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed width="250" height="225" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.schooltube.com/v/a0e4579df4e34ab6bff6" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></td>
<td>&nbsp;<object width="250" height="225">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.schooltube.com/v/d2665489201240e8b3f7" />
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed width="250" height="225" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.schooltube.com/v/d2665489201240e8b3f7" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></td>
<td>&nbsp;<object width="250" height="225">
<param name="movie" value="http://www.schooltube.com/v/f11413f977d848aca203" />
<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed width="250" height="225" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.schooltube.com/v/f11413f977d848aca203" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<div style="text-align: center">&nbsp;</div>

[Eye for Video]

Looks like the link is broke due to the trucation during posting. Post the link as just text, test it, and then we can copy and paste and then take a look.
EfV

[lkent]

"http://www.mrkent.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=98&Itemid=102"

[lkent]

Text

------http://www.mrkent.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=98&Itemid=102----

[Eye for Video]

Thanks for the link to the school site. Now I can see what's happening.
Copying the code they show on their site
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.schooltubemvp.com/embed.it?id=98&wid=240&hei=480"></script>
to a blank html page works just fine in IE7 and FF2. Videos play, playlist shows etc. This is just a link to their player.
Problem could be that Joomla is disrupting the parsing in IE somehow. Can you create a completely blank page? Just:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.schooltubemvp.com/embed.it?id=98&wid=240&hei=480"></script>
</body>
</html>
test from local machine or upload, it should work either way.
If this works in IE for you, the problem in Joomla.
But we'll work on that as we go along.
EfV

[lkent]

Yes it works...but the problem must be Joomla

[Eye for Video]

OK, I'm not sure how Joomla expects this to go but what if you remove the video link from the page, will the page be visable without the video? Post the link so we can view source, maybe that will help. Links still not working. I don't think it's just because of the video, so let's test without video. Just post links as text till we get that part working.
EfV

[lkent]

Just to clarify...you want me to remove the video player script and just show the link to the joomla page without it?

[Eye for Video]

Yes, let's varify that the page works and that you can post a working link to the page without any video player script. I'm just not able to see the page, so maybe this will allow for that.
EfV

[lkent]

I removed the video player script from the page and it works fine...I left the individual videos up as that is what I had to do because the player doesn't work in ie.

http://www.mrkent.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=98&Itemid=102


-----http://www.mrkent.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=98&Itemid=102---

[Eye for Video]

Well I'm not sure what to tell you. I opened the link shown above. Page opens and works just fine. I tried to "Save As", Web page complete but it would not save so I saved as html only. Granted, my test page does not include everything on the original page, (scripts, etc.). Then I opened that page and added this at the bottom of the page just before the closing </body> tag (code from school videos):
<div id="video_test">
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.schooltubemvp.com/embed.it?id=98&wid=240&hei=480"></script>
</div>
Saved and tested the page...the video player added at the bottom works just fine. Then I copied that same code into the <td> space for the first video that you had put on the page. Player shows up and works just fine.
I validated the page to see if that might be a problem...didn't see anything major but it looks like there are missing tags in the tables. Validate here:
http://www.htmlhelp.org/tools/validator/index.html.en
So my best guess is that the way Joomla is reading in the added school video <script> part is conflicting with the defaults set on the page. The problem is not the added code snippet but the way it interacts with the rest of the page, set by the Joomla template. As a way of testing you might just try commenting out any lines with <script> that you find in the header. Page won't work correctly but perhaps will give clues to problem. For example:
<!--<script type="text/javascript" src="/media/system/js/mootools.js"></script>
-->
Work through the various scripts and maybe identify the problem one.

Oh and as an aside, the code you posted in your long post above, which is not the entire page but just one of the editable portions....when pasted into a blank html doc. works just fine, including showing the school video player you are trying to post. The issue is with the way Joomla is dealing with (I think) the <script> part.
Good luck to ya,
EfV